This thesis examines Pope's 1743 Dunciad as a vision of serious moral decay couched in the imagery and language of the apocalyptic. It asserts a reading of the poem as an eschatalogical text in which the decline of taste ...

Julian of Norwich, a mystic writing in the fourteenth century, composed two versions of her text, The Showings of Julian of Norwich, in which she gave an account of a series of revelations granted to her by the divine. ...

Much like Macbeth, Shakespeare was besieged by trees. His literary and theatrical fate was grafted with them. In Shakespeareâ€™s Judeo-Christian background, a tree marked both the foundation of Manâ€™s Fall and the beginning ...

Throughout his work, and especially in his later work of Beyond Good and Evil and On the Genealogy of Morality, Nietzsche is preoccupied with the notion of truth, and the problematic philosophical truth claims of the past. ...